Thanksgiving was a good time too. Benny and I went to visit my cousin Veronica in Marinette. It was kind of funny. We leave after work, and get there about nine o�clock. We hang out for a while and decide to go out. She and her husband drive us to a casino an hour away. You know the one �island resort and casino, your island get away�. Do you recall the tune? We gamble for a while and I get a little bored and stalk a guy in a security outfit. Ducking and covering behind slot machines, trying not to let him see me watch him. I had Benny in on it, but he had no clue. That was really hard to pull off. Then Veronica and me go get some sandwiches and get hit on by a bunch of drunks. That was a whole lot of fun. One of the guys was feeding Veronica a few lines and she batted her eyes and said the funniest thing. �Look I have six kids and I�m about to be a grandma, I need commitment here.� The guy had a dumb look on his face and I could not stop laughing. I guess you had to be there. So we get home at 3:30am. Benny and I crash in the guest bedroom. Which by the way is 100 degrees. Thank God for windows. Then at 6:45am her two youngest children loudly play in the family room, where our guestroom is conveniently located. They�re screaming �I hate you� and �Shut up Fart Face�. It was a great time.

I get home from working Friday night and Benny asks me to close my eyes. So I do. I hear a bunch of bumping on the floor, as if he were moving something heavy. He gives me a big kiss and says �Happy anniversary/merry Christmas!� He moves over to the side and a beautiful sight greets my shit brown eyes. A pretty Line 6 spider 212, 100-watt amp, with pretty red facing. I almost died, literally. I started jumping up and down (screaming) and I tripped over my jeans� pant leg. The worst part is, these pants are 4 sizes to big for me. So my pants get pulled down and I trip and nearly killed my self on the medal frame of our futon. Did I tell you my middle name is Grace? So I played with that for a long time and then headed out to Target (tar-jay) to spend my gift card. I end up getting one of those really cute Stick Sharks � as seen on TV. You know the one, where the guy uses it to pick up a hundred pound safe. I vacuumed and was frightened how dusty everything was. I had a whole bunch of fun with that thing too!

Today, Benny and I went to Robs� and hung out. Basically Rob is my tutor. He gets to hear me swear and fumble all over the guitar while he plays along with me. Since today was the first time he tutored me, he wasn�t ready for the swearing, screaming part. Chris is used to it, however. I scream and make dying animal noises. It�s helps me think. So we spent a few hours working on my D chord. It�s probably the easiest chord in the world, but I don�t like it. Especially while playing Green Day�s Time of your life. I find using the D is a hindrance, but apparently it�s, like, important, or something. So we played the first three chords of that song, over and over again. It was very helpful, and I have learned to appreciate the D chord. That, and don�t ever tell anyone you cheat by not using a certain chord. It will get you in trouble.

I pigged out today. I am so hungry I could probably eat a whole turkey and hunt down a deer with my bare hands and eat it raw. I always wanted to do that. Apparently my brother Michael�s done it, but when it comes to hunting, never believe what he says. So anyway, back to me being hungry for meat. I had a ham steak and two slices of bacon for breakfast, a taco salad meat lover�s pizza and mashed potatoes for lunch. Oh and popcorn for dinner. You know, I�ve had popcorn for dinner six days in a row. I don�t think that�s very nutritious, but it fills the hole. So now I want steak and shrimp with a side of grilled chicken and maybe some lamb chops. I love lamb chops. I could eat lamb chops everyday. All right, I�ll stop now before I eat my own arm.

Sunday is the show at Maloney�s. That place always rocks. Another place that really rocks is The Bar on Lime Kiln. Unfortunately, they kind of canceled with us. Hey, but that�s cool. Cause now I have a pretty amp and a vacuum. What more can a girl ask for. Right?